Terms and Conditions for Hybrid and Virtual General Meetings

Hybrid General Meeting

ABN AMRO's ambition is to take a leading role in digital and technological innovation to serve the needs of clients and investors. In that context, in addition to attend the General Meeting in person ABN AMRO accommodates its Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders to virtually participate in its General Meetings through electronic means without the need to physically attend the respective General Meeting.

Virtual General Meeting

Under the Covid-19Emergency Act (Tijdelijke wet Covid-19 Justitie en Veiligheid) that entered into force on 24 April 2020, ABN AMRO can also decide that the General Meeting can only be accessed by electronic means of communication without the option to physically attend the General Meeting.

Terms and Conditions

Participating virtually in a (Hybrid or Virtual) General Meeting is subject to these Terms and Conditions.

Capitalised terms have the meaning as set out in Annex 1.

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Terms and Conditions for virtually attending and participating in General Meetings

1 INTRODUCTION

  1. These Terms and Conditions are applicable to Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders who virtually attend and participate in a General Meeting via the Online Platform.
  2. The Online Platform will be provided by the Online Platform Providers.
  3. Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders may participate in the General Meeting via the Online Platform and must identify themselves through a secured access on the Online Platform to enter the General Meeting. In addition to the provisions laid down in these Terms and Conditions, the Terms and Conditions of the Online Platform Providers also apply to the participation via the Online Platform.
  4. Further instructions on virtually attending and participating in the General Meeting will be included in the convocation of the General Meeting.
  5. After the convocation of a Hybrid General Meeting or a Virtual General Meeting and with due observance of requirements under Dutch law, the Executive Board may, at its own discretion, change the meeting to a physical only or, if a Hybrid General Meeting was convened, Virtual General Meeting, change the sequence of the meeting, change or restrict the electronic facilities for the meeting or adjourn the time at which the meeting will start. Such changes will be communicated to the Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders on ABN
    AMRO Bank's website (www.abnamro.com/general meeting).
  6. Voting by a Depositary Receipt Holder or its proxy holder is subject to a voting proxy provided by STAK AAB being effective at the relevant time and the further terms and conditions of such voting proxy as resolved upon by STAK AAB.

2 TECHNOLOGY

2.1 Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders that wish to virtually attend the General Meeting are strongly recommended to test their connection and ensure that they have access to the Online Platform in advance of the meeting. ABN AMRO Bank will implement the technical infrastructure for the Online Platform in a timely fashion in order to allow Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders to do so. ABN AMRO Bank will take all reasonable efforts to make sure that

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technical support lines are available for Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders during the General Meeting and for pre-meeting testing access.

  1. There are certain risks for Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders who attend the General Meeting via the Online Platform. These risks include, among other things, any failure or deficiency in virtual meeting equipment, software, network infrastructure, servers, internet or telephone connectivity, video or voice equipment, whether or not caused by an information security incident (which includes any unauthorised use, hacking, a denial of service attack, a denial of access, any failure or intrusion resulting from the theft or unlawful interception of a password or network access code and any other cyber-attack) or caused by any type of mechanical failure such as any electrical power outage during the General Meeting. If a Shareholder or Depositary Receipt Holder wishes to avoid such risks, he/she should attend the General Meeting in person (in case of a Hybrid General Meeting) or by providing a proxy and in the event of a Virtual General Meeting, submit questions prior to the General Meeting. If any of these risks prevent a Shareholder or Depositary Receipt Holder from watching, listening or otherwise following the meeting or voting electronically during (any part of) the General Meeting, then this will be for the risk and account of such Shareholder or Depositary Receipt Holder. The inability of one or more Shareholders or Depositary Receipt Holders to watch, listen or otherwise follow the General Meeting, to submit questions or vote electronically during (any part of) the General Meeting does not affect the validity of the General Meeting or any business conducted at such meeting.
  2. If it appears to the Chairman that the Online Platform has become inadequate for Shareholders or Depositary Receipt Holders to watch, listen or otherwise follow the meeting, to vote electronically and in the event of a Virtual General Meeting, submit questions during (any part of) of the General Meeting, then the Chairman may, at his/her own discretion, suspend or end the meeting, change the sequence of the meeting or proceed with the meeting without the possibility for some or all of the Shareholders or Depositary Receipt Holders who participate in the General Meeting via the Online Platform to watch, listen or otherwise follow the meeting, to vote electronically and in the event of a Virtual General Meeting, submit questions during (any part of) of the General Meeting. To the extent reasonably possible, the Chairman shall communicate this decision to the Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders who attend the General Meeting via the Online Platform. In case of a Hybrid General Meeting. The Chairman shall also communicate this decision to the Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders who participate in the General Meeting in person.
  3. If the Chairman suspends or ends the General Meeting, then all business conducted up to that moment will be valid, unless the Chairman resolves otherwise. With due observance of the requirements of Dutch law, a suspended

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Hybrid General Meeting may be continued as a physical General Meeting only or as a Hybrid General Meeting irrespective of the form of the Hybrid General Meeting that was suspended or cancelled.

3 SHAREHOLDERS' AND DEPOSITARY RECEIPT HOLDERS' RIGHTS

3.1 Virtual and Hybrid General Meetings

  1. In the event of a Virtual or Hybrid General Meeting, each Shareholder and Depositary Receipt Holder will be allowed to attend and participate in the General Meeting via the Online Platform, provided that they duly and timely registered for participation in the General Meeting via the Online Platform and duly and timely logged-in on the Online Platform in accordance with the instructions included in the convocation of the General Meeting.
  2. Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders who are logged-in via the Online Platform prior to the start of the General Meeting shall be:
    1. deemed to attend the General Meeting,
    2. counted in for calculating how many Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders are present or represented at the General Meeting and which percentage of the issued and outstanding Share capital of ABN AMRO Bank is present or represented at the General Meeting,
    3. able to follow (watch, listen or otherwise) the meeting,
    4. (for Virtual General Meetings only) entitled to submit questions through the Online Platform; and
    5. entitled to vote electronically at such General Meeting.
  3. The names of Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders who attend the General Meeting via the Online Platform will be included the registration list of Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders.
  4. Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders who are notlogged-in via the Online Platform prior tothe start of the General Meeting will not be counted as if they were attending the General Meeting in person and will only be able to follow (watch, listen or otherwise) the meeting.
  5. Any log-off by a Shareholder or a Depositary Receipt Holder before the end of General Meeting will not affect the calculation of the quorum of Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders attending the General Meeting. In case of any early log-off, the session of the Shareholder or Depositary Receipt Holder will expire. In such event the Shareholder or Depositary Receipt Holder will be allowed to log in again and re-join the General Meeting via the Online Platform. To the extent

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such Shareholder or Depositary Receipt Holder was logged in via the Online Platform prior to the start of the General Meeting, he/she will be able to continue to follow (watch, listen or otherwise) the meeting and exercise its voting rights electronically during the remaining part of the General Meeting. In all other circumstances such Shareholders and Depositary Receipt holders will only be able to follow (watch, listen or otherwise) the meeting.

  1. Without prejudice to article 3.1.4, Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders will be able to cast their vote electronically between the moment the Chairman opens the polls on a voting agenda item and the moment that the Chairman closes the polls during the General Meeting. The Chairman may at the beginning of the General Meeting at its sole discretion decide that the polls for one or more voting agenda items will be open between the commencement of the General Meeting and the closure of voting as announced by the Chairman during the General Meeting. The polls will not be open prior to the start of the General Meeting.
  2. Split voting by Shareholders or Depositary Receipt Holders on a shareholding that is held in one security account is not yet supported by the Online Platform and is therefore not possible.
  3. The finding by the Chairman after the closing of the poll or polls on the outcome of a vote by the General Meeting is decisive. The Chairman may inform the Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders of the results of such voting item(s) after the closing of that poll or polls or at the close of the General Meeting.
  4. Each Shareholder and Depositary Receipt Holder may request ABN AMRO Bank to send him/her a confirmation of receipt of his/her votes cast on the Online Platform.

3.2 Hybrid General Meeting

  1. Shareholders and Depositary Receipt Holders who participate in the Hybrid General Meeting via the Online Platform shall not have the opportunity to speak or submit questions. If Shareholders or Depositary Receipt Holders wish to speak or submit such questions, they or their proxies should attend the Hybrid General Meeting in person, provided that a Shareholder, Depositary Receipt Holder or its proxy holder cannot attend the Hybrid General meeting in person for the same Shares or Depositary Receipts that were logged-in on the Online Platform of the Hybrid General Meeting.
  2. Access to the Online Platform will be cancelled for a Shareholder or Depositary Receipt Holder if he/she has registered him/herself to attend the Hybrid General

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ABN Amro Bank NV published this content on 29 September 2022 and is solely responsible for the information contained therein. Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 03 October 2022 22:45:54 UTC.